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[SilentTristero]

I'm dissapointed by the surprising lack of retro / classic content on current gen systems. The Wii Virtual Console knocked it out of the park compared to the slim Wii U library. Some of my favorite experiences with the PS3 were the PS1 and PS2 classic games available for download. I exptected the extensive back catalogs to grow this gen, not shrink. It's surprising to me that you can play PS1 games on Vita, but not the PS4. And the Xbox One would prefer if the past just didn't exist.

I know there are hurdles to jump through. I also totally get that recent-gen backwards compatibilty is impossible due to hardware constraints of our current systems. I'm just sad that the audience for even older content is apparently too small to make it worth the effort.

 

[SolVanderlyn]

Loot games, and crafting.

I play still play MMOs, though. Maybe I hate myself.

 

[liliththepale]

1. They are not adequate then. or

2. Not everybody in the universe has heard the explanation.

There will never be adequate light to give sight to a blind man.

 

[dehalcyone]

Lately it's the subgenre porno visual novels. Now, I'm not going to say adult material isn't interesting when it's portrayed in certain ways, but some of the games I've tried in anticipation for psycho-pass have been flatout fan service, ie: touch or rub x watch scene where her eye explodes... (I just can't imagine there are dedicated fans, more so they have opportunistic players)

It's hard to tell what's what when they hype a sci-fi story, but use anime artwork.

Friggin bizarre when sex is just sorta out there waiting, usually for a price. Maybe that's it; it's cheaper.

 

[Kurdel]

Let's Play. I don't get it. Why would someone want to sit there for hours watching someone else play a game when they could play it themselves?

I can only tolerate stuff from Giant Bomb, because they aren't try hards who want to make you laugh every 5 seconds.

 

[AntiFacebook]

Dating sim elements

Amiibos

This too

 

[sandy1297]

Generally you're watching for their reactions first and foremost. You have to think of it like that.

yes, after I finished Last of Us I went to many youtubers channel to see the reaction on a couple of key moments. Especially the beginning and the end. its kind off the same as discussing it on forums

I also watches DOTA matches when I currently don't have the time to play one or if I'm betting in one of the team (yes, this is a thing)
also if it's a big event like MLG/Dreamhack/TI

 

[KaoteK]

Console wars

That's a tradition, not a trend

As for trends I can't stand:
Day 1 dlc
Broken games at launch
Preorder culture /bonuses

Edit: paying for online MP sucks too

 

[SimpleCRIPPLE]

People that describe a game as "trash".

 

[RedToad64]

Crafting. It was never fun, it never will be.
Console Wars. All systems have great exclusives, calm down. Of course, this is not a recent issue, but I have no idea why this is still a thing.
Twitch Beggars. Why does the community put up with this? Awful gimmicks to make you subscribe and terrible stream layouts.

EDIT: Looking at some other posts, I would like to add:
Yearly Sport Games Installments. They are all almost identical. Oh, they have new players and stats... riveting.
Gameplay-less Trailers. I cannot comprehend how people can be so excited for some CG video that will look nothing like the actual game.

 

[G-Fex]

Whatever gaming side constantly goes on about. Frame rates, DLC, amiboos, etc.

 

[23qwerty]

From Software games.

I understand the whole "git gud" aspect but it still doesn't excuse the mediocre combat mechanics.

mediocre combat? wuh?

 

[liliththepale]

mediocre combat? wuh?

Right? It's fine if it's not your cup of tea, but you can't just call it mediocre without explaining why you have that opinion.

 

[Dr. Kaos]

Pre-orders.
Achievements.
Customization of everything in game. Enough! just balance it for me and give it to me to use. I don't want 100,000 choices of karts and wheels and wings and pilot.
Needlessly Open-world games. It works in GTA, but most of the time, the world is barren and boring. Nothing beats proper human level design. Nothing.
The excitement over No Man's Sky. For the reason immediately above

 

[Morning Star]

Shouldn't she be in the little window and the game be in the forefront?

 

[drotahorror]

Minecraft

Also survivor games like Rust, The Forest, etc. I have a few but can't stand them (will likely buy more though hah.)

 

[Kurdel]

Shouldn't she be in the little window and the game be in the forefront?

Know your audience, I guess?

 

[Hypron]

Shouldn't she be in the little window and the game be in the forefront?

I don't think the main reason people watch that stream is to see the game.

 

[Mexen]

Not a trend per se but I still do not understand what #GG really is or why gamers today are so, so angry.

 

[Rozart]

The need for everything to be open world with RPG mechanics.

Yeap. I'm done with developers expecting me to be wowed by how 'open' the world is. Open world generally translates into fetch quests, throwaway missions, collecthalons and usually, it's accompanied by a weak/under-developed story as well.

I still weep at Bioware's decision to go 'open world' for DA:I. Traversing through that desert area was so stupidly /boring/. I'd take the smaller maps of BB/Dark Souls, DA:O anyday if it meant that there would be more thought and care placed into them.

 

[CaptainGyro]

Why the heck does frame rate keep getting lumped in with resolution/visuals?

Frame rate doesn't make the game look better, it makes it control better. People who complain about low frame-rates are complaining about a lack of control.

nope sorry. Increased frame rates make the game look better AND make it control better.

 

[Kasumin]

Twitch streamers.

Why would I want to watch some 19 year old beg for money while paying LoL.

There's waaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than that to Twitch streamers. The speedrunning community is great. Even the channels that have subs and the streamer makes money exclusively from streaming. Or there's just plenty of regular people streaming for the heck of it with an audience of five or fewer people. There's a ton of content on Twitch and a huge variety.

 

[klee123]

Right? It's fine if it's not your cup of tea, but you can't just call it mediocre without explaining why you have that opinion.

It's usually the reaction when people don't get the gameplay systems.

"I don't understand the gameplay/It's too hard, therefore it sucks!"

 

[PAULINK]

i've been forcing myself to play heroes of the storm (for the Hearthstone cardback) and it doesnt make much sense to me. Mobas feel so unsatisfying to play or watch.

 

[FLAguy954]

Retro art styles. Enough.

This. I already lived with those games in the 90s dammit.

EDIT: Add achievements to the list as well.

I commend Nintendo for going against 'industry trends' with that shit and Steam/U-Play for not shoving them in our faces on PC.

And pre-ordering of digital content. I'm not saying people can't or even shouldn't pre-order because people can buy whatever they want. But pre-order culture directly influences how devs and publishers approach game reveals and development, mostly negatively imo.

 

[takriel]

Let's Play. I don't get it. Why would someone want to sit there for hours watching someone else play a game when they could play it themselves?

What's there not to understand? It's kind of ignorant to assume that everyone can buy every game they want.

From Software games.

I understand the whole "git gud" aspect but it still doesn't excuse the mediocre combat mechanics.

Explain yourself please.

 

[ROUGE_BLOCK]

Why is the reload button the same one I use to pick up guns in almost every FPS for the last decade?

Is it so hard to separate the two?

 

[bloodforge]

From Software games.

I understand the whole "git gud" aspect but it still doesn't excuse the mediocre combat mechanics.

I agree, I find them clunky.

 

[DSix]

Amiibos

Oh god amiibos... this is so terrible. I expected it to bomb as it deserved just like the e-card reader did, but nintendo seems to have found its whales.

OT: Fanservice games like Senran Kagura Burst.

That's a good one yes. If I want to be titillated like that I'd rather watch hentai porn, at least there's a pay-off there.

 

[liliththepale]

Why is the reload button the same one I use to pick up guns in almost every FPS for the last decade?

Is it so hard to separate the two?

Limited number of buttons on the gamepad. Is there a function you'd prefer to replace that with that makes more sense?

 

[Mass_Pincup]

PC Master Race assholes.

If you had a Ferrari you wouldn't make fun of people riding rental cars. If you ate steak everyday you wouldn't make fun of people eating ramen. You wouldn't do that in front of them, unless you wanted to be punched in the face.

Only in gaming some people go out of their way to make fun of people because they like to spend less money on the machine they use to play fucking video games. It's moronic.

This, people who care about achievement and Nintendo fanboys for me.

 

[SkoomaSuckinSwit]

The explosion of YouTube gaming personalities, and people who watch them religiously.
When I first heard about people making dedicated gaming channels, I scoffed. I thought, "Who would rather sit around and watch other people play games, instead of playing the games themselves?". I understand "Quick Looks", "Lets Plays", reviews, strategies, and stuff like that.
But folks who do the same schtick over and over again? On a daily basis, no less.

I've only recently become aware of how big this phenomenon has become, because my little kids watch Minecraft YT channels quite a lot now.
The ones they watch the most that I can identify by name, ranked by order of annoyingness, most to least: Ssundee, DiamondMinecart, StampyLongNose.
I do like PopularMMOs though, the chemistry between Pat n Jen is cool. "OMG! Smash the like button!"

 

[doraemoe]

Let's play
seriously, why is this even exists?

 

[Cookie Dough]

Polygons
Games in colour
Controllers
Audio
Existence

What's the point?

 

[Laughing Banana]

The necessity or obsession of some people to analyze that one one pixel at the corner at that wall over there and then cry foul when it's not perfect is really the kind of stuff that makes me shake my head in shame.

 

[ResidentDante]

Let's Play. I don't get it. Why would someone want to sit there for hours watching someone else play a game when they could play it themselves?

Never understood this myself, I have used such videos mainly to look at a scenes far into an old game I completed years ago for nostalgic reasons. The worst is people saying a game is terrible or complaining about a game and they have only watched a video of it. Fucking play the game or gtfo.

I really don't get all these videos of people playing and endlessly chatting on about shit, even worse are videos of a few people talking about nonsense, laughing at every stupid thing happening and thinking viewers find it equally funny to watch it. Especially Minecraft videos like this are completely meaningless for me. Watching four dudes, screaming and laughing in their mics building shitty block graphics together. I love to play Minecraft, but watching it is just dull, unless it's a video compilation showing how a dude built a computer with blocks or some crazy build. But guys playing Minecraft with no special agenda and listening to random chat while doing it is just a trend I don't understand.

 

[ksdixon]

This thing where we get artificially gimped at the beginning of a game in order to grind out a skill tree/web. By the time gameplay becomes actually fun the story is usually nearly over.

 

[Corpekata]

Shouldn't she be in the little window and the game be in the forefront?

Not really. Even streamers that aren't pandering like her go bigger screen on themselves when they're in between matches of a game. Almost all of them go bigger screen on the games when they're in a match, including her.

 

[Professor Beef]

The urge for open-world in every game, especially where it doesn't make sense.

 

[pbayne]

Focus on frames per second or 1080p. I don't care.

 

[Rainy]

Not every game needs to be open world. Might be just me but sometimes I get overwhelmed with the amount of stuff there is to do in some of these games. Also being open world potentially takes away from other aspects of the game. I still like some open world games...but let's slow down here.

 

[Gastone]

Never understood the love for Minecraft. And the constant nagging about every gaming needing to have a multiplayer component..stop it.

 

[hooijdonk17]

Zombie games: Where were you in the 80s?

Crafting survival games: Really?

MOBA games: I don't even..

Never understood the love for Minecraft. And the constant nagging about every gaming needing to have a multiplayer component..stop it.

Well, I don't play Minecraft but as a kid who grew up with Lego bricks in his pockets wherever he went, I really understand the love it gets.

 

[EMan]

I don't understand crafting/building games. I know there is some sort of appeal to crafting games but its just too boring and time consuming to do.

I also don't see why console wars is a thing. If you really are a fan of videogames you don't have to be super negative of other systems. Just because you are a fan of one system you could at least acknowledge that the others have stuff just as good if not better as your favorite.

 

[Atomski]

I don't understand Ps4 saleS... I had one but up until bloodborne I felt like there was hardly anything great to play.

 

[z1ggy]

I don´t like Early access. At all.

 

[race bannon]

LoL is an E-sport where the best players have an extremely high level of skill. Some people are willing to pay to watch high level play. That 19 year old streaming is likely one of the best players in the world. It's the same was watching a bunch of rec league players play basketball at the local YMCA vs watching LeBron James.

Thats a reach, I, no matter how hard i practice, will never be LBJ. However, time spent on any game and you can "git gud ". watching someone else play videogames is like masterbation without the release

 

[fredrancour]

Zombie games: Where were you in the 80s?

Non-existent, just like all my friends who loved games like Dead Rising and L4D.

 

[CaviarMeths]

Let's Play is a good one.

"Immersion" is probably mine. I honestly can't imagine that forgetting that I'm playing a video game would alter my experience in any significant way. Not knocking anyone who does play for immersion, just that I personally don't "get" it.

Why is the reload button the same one I use to pick up guns in almost every FPS for the last decade?

Is it so hard to separate the two?

Contextual action buttons are a great idea. They simplify and streamline controls and manage the limited number of buttons on a controller in an effective way.

Why would you need to reload and pick up a different weapon at the same time anyway?

 

[jonno394]

F2P games. I remember when farmville and other titles were massive on Facebook and everyone and their dog told me I had to play. I did for all of five minutes and never went back. the same people told me to play candy crush and now tell me to play clash of heroes or whatever that kate upton advertised game is. I don't get the love they get.